. History of lace . rites to theminister, Je vois que vous seriez bien aise destablir dansle royaume la manufacture des points de Venise. ce quise pourrait faire en envoyant dicy quelques filles des meil- Chroniqucs de VCEil-de-Ba^iif. 1690. Chroulqucs de VCEil-de- ^ Madame de Motteville is not Bceiif. complimentary to the ladiesof the 1661, May 27; 1662, Jan. 1; Spanish Court: Elles avoient pen de 1664, May 31, Sept. 18, and Dec. 12. linge, she writes, et lenrs dentelles On fabriquait precedemment nous parurent laides.—Memoires ces especes de dentelles guipures, dont jiour servir a Vliistoire
. History of lace . rites to theminister, Je vois que vous seriez bien aise destablir dansle royaume la manufacture des points de Venise. ce quise pourrait faire en envoyant dicy quelques filles des meil- Chroniqucs de VCEil-de-Ba^iif. 1690. Chroulqucs de VCEil-de- ^ Madame de Motteville is not Bceiif. complimentary to the ladiesof the 1661, May 27; 1662, Jan. 1; Spanish Court: Elles avoient pen de 1664, May 31, Sept. 18, and Dec. 12. linge, she writes, et lenrs dentelles On fabriquait precedemment nous parurent laides.—Memoires ces especes de dentelles guipures, dont jiour servir a Vliistoire dAnne on ornait les aubes des pretres, les dAutrichc.^ rochets des eveques et les jupons des ^ Madame de Sevigne mentions femmes de qualite.—Boland de la these dresses: Avez-vous oui parler Platiere. The articles on lace by des transparens ? . . de robes noires Roland and Savary have been copied transparentes ou des belles dentelles by all succeeding writers on the ?dAngleterre.—Lettres. subject. Fi-. Canons of Louis XIV.—(M. de Versailles. 16G0.) To face page 154. LOUIS XIV 155 leures ouvrieres qui pussent instruire celles cle France avecle temps. ^ Monseigneur de Bonzys suggestion was accepted, and afew years later (1673) Colbert writes to M. le ComtedAvaux, who succeeded M. de Bonzy as ambassador atVenice : I have gladly received the collar of needlepointlace w^orked in relief that you have sent me, and I find itvery beautiful. I shall have it compared with those newlaces being made by our own lace-makers, although I maytell you beforehand that as good specimens are now made inthis kingdom. ^ Alencon, an old lace-making centre, waschosen as the seat of the new manufacture.^ Favier-Duboulay wTites to Colbert that, liefore the introductionof the new points de France, lace-making was to thepeasants une manne, et une vraie benediction du ciel, (juisest espandue sur tout ce pays. The art had spread farand wide throuQ-h the district about Alencon ; children ofseven y
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